A NEW SLANT ON LIFE

The story of A New
Slant on Life is quite simple. As can be seen on the
original
description of this book, it contained “twenty-eight of the
best-loved essays written by L. Ron Hubbard between 1950 and 1959.”

All one needs to do is
to compare the table of contents to see the sort of “correction”
that was done to this book (matching chapters are identified with matching letters):

1976
CHAPTERS

2007
CHAPTERS

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Is It
Possible to be Happy?
The True Story of Scientology
Two Rules for Happy Living
What Is the Basic Mystery?
Man’s Search for his Soul
The Reason Why
What Is Knowledge?
The Conditions of Existence
Myths of the Mind
How to Live with Children
On Marriage
The Man Who Succeeds
On the Death of Consciousness
Accent on Ability
Honest People Have Rights, Too
Acceptance Level
Confronting
On Bringing Order
On Human Character
Past, Present and Future
Playing the Game
Freedom vs. Entrapment
Justice
The Vocabularies of Science
How to Study a Science
The Human Mind
Records of the Mind Are Permanent
Communication

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Introduction
Is It Possible to Be Happy?
Personal Integrity
A Description of Scientology
How to Study Scientology
Man's Search for His Soul
On Our Efforts for Immortality
On Raising Our Level of Consciousness
The Eight Dynamics
The Affinity, Reality and Communication Triangle
The Reason Why
Handling the Confusions of the Workaday World
The Man Who Succeeds
A True Group
On Marriage
How to Live with Children
Two Rules for Happy Living
What Is Greatness?
The Anti-Social Personality
The Social Personality
The Third Party Law
Honest People Have Rights, Too
Ethics, Justice and the Dynamics
The True Story of Scientology
My Philosophy

“How to Study a Science” in
1972 was an adaptation of an article "How to Study Scientology" from Ability magazine, issue 90M (can be found in Volume 3 of The Technical
Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology).
It closely correlates with “How to Study Scientology” chapter in 2007
which is itself an adaptation from the same article, and so it was
counted in as a matching chapter.

Counting the remaining non-matching chapters in 1972, we can see that a
whooping EIGHTEEN (18) chapters were dropped from the book
including some of the chapters that are at the very core of the subject
of Scientology – Knowledge, Communication, Confronting, Ability,
Freedom and
the mechanics of Entrapment – these concepts are at the very foundation
of Scientology which aimed to quite literary give readers a new slant
on
life and a good understanding of the subject itself. Many of these
dropped chapters are adaptations (shortened and/or simplified text) of
more advanced and hard to find publications meaning that the simplified
text aimed to reach raw public was unique to A New Slant on Life and is now lost. On the other hand, many of the chapters that were added to 2007 book in order to make up
for the missing space come directly from other introductory books:

From Self-Analysis:
- On Our Efforts for Immortality
- On Raising Our Level of Consciousness

From The Fundamentals of Thought:
- The Eight Dynamics
- The Affinity, Reality and Communication Triangle

From Introduction to Scientology Ethics:
- The Anti-Social Personality
- The Social Personality
- The Third Party Law
- Ethics, Justice and the Dynamics

From Problems of Work:
- Handling the Confusions of the Workaday World

This leaves us with 5 unique chapters (not including the Introduction)
that were added to the book:
- Personal Integrity
- A Description of Scientology
- A True Group
- What is Greatness?
- My Philosophy

Here is what was identified for the source of the eliminated chapters:

CHAPTER
NAME

SOURCE
OF ORIGIN

What
Is the Basic Mystery?

Not
identified

What
Is Knowledge?

Not
identified

The
Conditions of Existence

Shortened
version of a chapter from The Fundamentals of Thought

Myths
of the Mind

Not
identified

On
the Death of Consciousness

A
chapter from Self-Analysis

Accent
on Ability

Adaptation
of a chapter from Dianetics 55!

Acceptance
Level

Not
identified

Confronting

Adaptation
of an article titled "More Confronting" from Ability
magazine, issue 54 (can be found in volume 3 of The Technical
Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology)

On
Bringing Order

Adaptation
of an article (same title) from Ability magazine,
issue 107 (can be found in volume 3 of The Technical
Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology)

On
Human Character

Adaptation
of Professional Auditor's Bulletin (PAB) No. 14
with the same title (can be found in the first volume of The
Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology)

Past,
Present and Future

Not
identified

Playing
the Game

Adaptation
from Professional Auditor's Bulletin (PAB) No. 63
with the same title (can be found in the second volume of The
Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology)

Freedom
vs. Entrapment

Adaptation
of chapter "Trapped" from Dianetics 55!

Justice

Adaptation
from Professional Auditor's Bulletin (PAB) No. 96
with the same title (can be found in the second volume of The
Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology)

The
Vocabularies of Science

Not
identified

The
Human Mind

A
chapter from Handbook for Preclears

Records
of the Mind Are Permanent

An
article from The Journal of Scientology (can be
found in the first volume of The Technical Bulletins of
Dianetics and Scientology) – original name "Records of Mind Are Permanent."

Communication

Adaptation
of a chapter from Dianetics 55!

There are numerous alterations of text in the matching chapters
between the two books, but there is no plan to cover them here since it
is already clear just from looking at the table of contents that
the book was not changed for the better.